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J. L. NEWELL.

WATCH.

Patented July 19, 1892.

Muff/1155151111 IWW/Willi WZwJf/OJ, W @M @hed Wi IINTTED STATES PATENT OrmeaC` JAMES L. NEWELL, OF ASHLAND, IVISOONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO lVALTER B. PELTON AND EVERITT IV. PELTON, OF SAME PLACE, IVILLIAM II.

IVEBB, OF SUPERIOR, ANI) ANSELM OONSIN.

O. BOSSARD, OF KAUKAUNA, IVIS- WATCH.

SPECIFICATION Application filed March 24. 1892.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES L. NEWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashland, in the county of Ashland and State of Tisconsim have invented new and useful Improvements in IVatCheS, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in watches; and its objects are to provide a watch of simple construction, great economy, and dispense with the ordinary dial-plate, using the pillar-plate for the face of the watch with its numerals. I attain these objects by the mechanism shown and described in the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference are used to designate the same parts in the several gures of the draw ings.

Figure l represents a sectional View of a watch containing my invention drawn upon the lines oca: of Fig. 2, omitting the trainworks and internal construction between the pillar-plates, as these are not changed or affected by my invention. Fig. 2 represents the upper pillar-plate of the watch with the dial-plate removed, showing the hour and minute wheels located in recesses and also a groove L. Fig. 3 represents a sectional view of the upper pillar-plate provided with an inwardly-projecting rim; and Fig. 4 represents the face of the Watch with the dial disk 0r cap and the hands in place, the numerals for the hours imprinted upon the pillar-plate.

A designates the center or setting post, which passes through the center hollow pinion Gand through the pinion B and its upwardlyextended hub. As in all ordinary constructions of watches, this center pin is readily removed; but it is sokclosely adjusted to the bore of the pinion B that by turning it in either direction the pinions B and O can be revolved and the hands adjusted to set the watch.

B designates the cannon-pinion, which engages with the minute-wheel F, whose upper pinion F engages with the hour -wheel O. The hub of the cannon -pinion B passes through the hollow hub of the hour-wheel O.

L designates a circular groove cut or forming part of Letters Patent No. 479,376, dated July 19, 1892.

Serial No. 426,209. (No model.)

pressed in the upper face of the pillow-plate E, its channel extending. outwardly from the center.

D designates what I term the dial-cap. It is preferably a circular plate dished near its periphery, so as to form a slight rim capable ot' being forced or snapped into the groove L. It is evident that the purpose of the groove L is simply to producea backing or exterior rim which will hold'the dial-cap, and that there may be many modifications in the construction of the pillarplate in this particular. Thus in Fig'. 3 I have shown a raised or elevated circular ridge or rim located upon the pillar-plate into which the dial-cap may be snapped.

Instead of having the groove, as shown in Figs. l and 2, the space within the groove may be recessed, leaving only the exterior surface and wall of the groove, the space within the circular groove being recessed the same as the recesses of the hour and minute wheels. It is also evident, inasmach as the function of the dial-cap as constructed by me is simply to retain the wheels and pinions B, O, and F in position, and not to constitute the watch-face, that the dial-cap may be attached to and held in place upon the pillarplate by other means than the groove and peripheral rim of the former snapped therein. It may be so held and retained by screws and other well-known means; but I prefer the groove and the peripheral rim of the dial-cap.

In the construction of the dial-plate it is provided with a small orifice or slot N near its periphery into which any small instrument may be inserted to lift the dial-cap out of the retaining-groove. Preferably this orifice or slot should extend entirely out to the edge of the dial-cap, thereby enabling the rim to spring or yield and be more easily snapped into place.

I designates a nut rigidly attached to the lower end of the center post A, by means of which the post may be revolved and the hands of the watch set. The construction I have shown may be applied to any form of watch or watches with or without stem-winding devices.

Heretofore the numerals representing the hours and other indicia for the subdivisions have been printed or impressed upon a second plate superimposed upon the pillar-plate and commonly called the dial 'or face77 of the Watch. This second plate is an expensive part of the construction which I Wholly dispense With. In my construction of thc dialplate the numerals and other indicia are impressed or printed directly in or upon the pillar-plate, thus enabling the construction of a simpler and less expensive watch.

It is evident that there may be many variations and modifications of the several parts of my invention Without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. In a watch provided with the usual train of Works carried between two pillar-plates, an upper pillar-plate having recesses to receive and carry the cannon-pinion and hour and minute Wheels and provided on its upper surtace with a dial-cap removably held in place over said recesses, leaving a peripheral space on said pillar-plate for the printing or impressing thereon ot the hours and subdivisions thereof, all substantially as shown.

2. In a watch provid ed with the usual trainworks carried between two pillar-plates, an upper pillar-plate having recesses to receive and carry the mechanism controlling the relative movements of the hour and minute hands and provided on its upper surface with a circular abutment, in combination with a dial-cap capable of being sprung or snapped into and removably held by said abutment over said recesses, leaving a peripheral space on said pillar-plate exterior to said dial-cap for the printing or impressing thereon of the hours and subdivisions thereof, all substantially as shown.

3. In a watch provided with the usual train- Works carried between two pillar-plates, an upper pillar-plate having recesses to receive and carry the mechanism controlling the relative movements of the hour and minute hands and having symbols indicating the hours and their subdivisions printed or impressed upon the exterior peripheral area of said plate, in combination With a dial-cap and means for removably attaching said dial-cap to said plate immediately over said recesses, all substantially as shown.

4. In a watch provided with the usual trainworks carried between two pillar-plates, an upper pillar-plate having recesses to carry the mechanism controlling the relative movements of the hour and minute hands and provided on its upper surface with a circular groove, in combination with a circular dialcap dished near its peripheral edge and capable of being sprung or snapped into said groove and held over said recesses and leaving a circular space exterior thereto on the face ot' said plate for printing or impressing symbols ot the hours and subdivisions thereot, all substantially as shown.

JAMES L. NEWELL.

lVitnesses:

W. L. WINDOM, EDWARD E. JoHNsoN. 

